Culinary appliance.



L. B. BROWN.

CULINARY APPLIANOE. APPLIOATION FILED rm. za, 1911.

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V m l l f 'm W5 LYDIA B. BROWN, OF WATERLOO', WISCONSIN.

CULINARY APPLIANCE.

y Specication of Letters Patent.

`Patented Feb. 25,191.3.

` l Application tiled February `23, 1911. Serial No. 610,288.

- of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention, which generally relates to cooking appliances, moreparticularly has for its object to provide a simple', inexpensive andeasily manipulated means useful for cooking fruit contained in theconventional forms of jars, and my said invention.

:further has for its o bject tol provide a cooker in which s ecialprovision is lnade for laterally bracmg and holding the jars. inposition during cooking and from Iwhich Yanyone of the jars can bereadily lifted without interferingvwith the other cooking jars.

My invention consists in thepeculiar combination andV novel arrangementof the parts, vhereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustratedinthe drawings, in which v A Figure 1, is a Vertical section of thecomplete appliance with the parts in their cooperating position. Fig. 2,is a perspective view thereof, -the top of the boiler being shownremoved and parts broken away.

Fig. 3, is,a perspective View of one of the jar receiving trays .orguides. Fig. 4, 1s

.a similar view of the base support for the said jars;- Fig. 5, is aperspective view of a modified form of one of .the guides hereinafterreferred to.`

My invention comprises a boiler or holding Vessel, of suitable shape inhorizontal plan, but preferably of oval shape, as shown and it consistsof the bottom or jar receiver 10 and the cover 11, both having lhandles10a-11, the cover being also provided with a flange 12 for slipping downinto the top of the receiver 10 to make a tight joint when the cover isput in place.

2 designates a bottom tray, formed of the Wire cloth top 20, the outerwire rim 21, Shaped to readily fit down into' the boiler 10 and thecrossed wire braces 22, the ends of whichI turn down to form short legs23. The braces 22 are secured to the wire cloth top 20 by hooking thelegends therein and the said cloth -20 is secured to the rim 21 byclenching the edges thereover. By forming the bottom' tray in .themanner shown and described, provision is made for supjar trays or tom ofthe boiler to permit a 'full circulation of the hot water under andaround the bottom of the said jars.

5 designates a'wire tray that consists of a. number' of lring portions50 that form re ceivers or guides 51y for the jars to pass through, andwhichare combined with an outer rim 52 that is shaped and oi a size tosnugly fit down into the boiler 10. In practice a number of the trays 5go with each boiler who-sc rings or guides 51 are of different diametersfor receiving pint, quart or two quart jars. To support the receivingtrays a suitable distance above the bottom tray the several trays 5 havependent or leg portions 55.

Inthe preferred construction of my in vention the trays 5 are formedof'a single str nd of Wire that is bent to shape so as to orm theseveral ring or loop portions, the rim and the leg members,l as isclearly shown in the drawings, and in bending, the several ring portionsare interlaced, as at 5 6, which gives the entire tray body a rigid andfirm shape, as also 'holding the said rings 51 'in a relatively fixedposition.

In Fig. 5 I have shown the tray 5 as composed of an outer or rim wire57, within which is located a series of wide independently formed rings58 that are coupled to each other' and to the rim wire 57, by'fbentmetal clips 59. In this latter form the leg portionsare separate piecesof wire bent to shape and whose ends are clenched on the porting thejars` -l siifiiciently above botrim wire 57 to form hinged connections,so. 90

the legs can be readily folded up in the horizontal plane of the tray tofacilitate the packing of the parts. i

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawing theadvantages and the manner in which my invention can be used will bereadily apparent. The same being of a very simple structure and theparts easily assembled the cooker can be quickly set in position foruse, it being apparent from Fig. 1 of the drawings that the coveror'boiler top while sufficiently above the top of the jars to allow fora free circulation of steam into the jar mouths,.the said top forms aguard for holding the jars from movingup out of the rings 5 during,rcooking and since the trays 5 are located near the bottom tray 2, theyform the guides or receivers for the jars and engage them sulicientlyhigh above the bottom to eect positive side supports for the said jar.

W'hatl claim is:

-Asa new article of manufacture, a jar holder for cooking boilers,formed of a single length or Wire and consisting of a rimlike bodyformed by parallel twisted portions of said Wire, and including down-Wardly bent portions forming open V- shaped legs, said holder alsoincluding a plurality otl'fwjnr receiving members that lic v in theplane the rim-like body and consisting of single' strand Wire, bent intoringlike form, the several rings being intertwisted or interlaced t'form a'reinforced Weblikev structure, substantially as specied.

LYDIA B, BROWN.

itnesses ELIZABETH KADING, DORA GERTH.

